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Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps

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Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. The startup, which recently took part in SOSV’s accelerator program, presented last week during CES at the Taiwan Tech Arena pavilion.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

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As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics

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Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “Acquisitions in the world of social robotics are very rare. “Acquisitions in the world of social robotics are very rare. .” After raising $11.5

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product. The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information.

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The cyber pandemic: AI deepfakes and the future of security and identity verification

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Recent stories show that deepfake injection attacks are capable of defeating popular Know Your Customer (KYC) systems – and with a 200% rise in injection attacks last year and no way to stop them, CIOs and CISOs must develop a strategy for preventing attacks that use AI-generated deepfakes.

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform

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million seed round into ModernFi, which is developing a marketplace that helps banks that need deposits to make loans find what they are looking for, while banks with too many deposits can offload them. It will also capture slide presentations and insert those in the summary, too. Christine has more. That is where Otter.ai

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